"What are you saying?" The middle-aged man stared at the person across from him, his eyes sharp.
"Let's make it public." The woman took a deep breath. Guilt, at odds with her still-youthful face, showed in her expression. "We killed so many people. Now it's time for us to atone."
Not just the middle-aged man—everyone else in the conference room found the proposal unacceptable. Several people slammed their hands on the table and stood, glaring at the woman. "Do you even know what you're saying?!"
"Because of a little guilt on your part, you want all the work we've put in over the past century to go to waste?"
"This isn't something you can fix by admitting fault and apologizing. Once we publicly confess, no one will be able to control the situation!"
The speakers were all worked up. They were determined to persuade the woman, hoping to sway any other colleagues who might also be wavering.
After a long, tense exchange of looks, the Chief Executive spoke again. "That proposal will never pass."
The woman remained calm. "I have a second proposal."
Her gaze swept over the middle-aged man across from her. "The Mining Group proposed using human-bone gemstones to get through the crisis. They were also the ones who recruited people to carry it out. And they were the ones who failed to provide for the victims' families, repeatedly ignored government warnings, and continued their covert operations. Make them admit their crimes and purge some of the group's senior leadership, and District 019 can avoid disaster."
The eyes in the conference room, some openly and some discreetly, fell on the middle-aged man. His presence here represented the Mining Group, and he was also related to the head of the Tiantianle Group.
The woman's first proposal had been absurd,